hard disk choice

[Aka]

Hi,

Could some one give me an adivice for hard disk choice, please ?

I am looking for something like :
- 3 1/2
- SATA
- long life time (fiability )
- fast
- >200 GB

So, I searched, found these ones which look fine and I wonder if
someone have some experience with :

- Hitachi Deskstar E7K1000 sATA 750GB/32MB, 7200rpm (B)
- Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 sATA 750GB/32M, 7200rpm
- Hitachi Deskstar E7K1000 sATA 1TB/32MB, 7200rpm (B)
- Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000 sATA 1TB/32MB -7200rpm (B)

I wonder too what are the differences between 2 of these whith same
capacity...


Thanks, best regards,
Aka

 

[Rod Speed]

Could some one give me an adivice for hard disk choice, please ?

I am looking for something like :
- 3 1/2
- SATA
- long life time (fiability )
- fast
- >200 GB

I like Samsungs myself.

Currently the best $/GB is at 1.5TB, but you may not need anthing like that large.

So, I searched, found these ones which look fine and
I wonder if someone have some experience with :

- Hitachi Deskstar E7K1000 sATA 750GB/32MB, 7200rpm (B)
- Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 sATA 750GB/32M, 7200rpm
- Hitachi Deskstar E7K1000 sATA 1TB/32MB, 7200rpm (B)
- Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000 sATA 1TB/32MB -7200rpm (B)

I wonder too what are the differences between 2 of these whith same capacity...

The Ultrastars are in theory the mission critical drives used by enterprises.

The E7K drives are enterprise drives, the 7Ks are desktop drives, not as fast seekers etc.

 

[mscotgrove]

I like Samsungs myself.

Currently the best $/GB is at 1.5TB, but you may not need anthing like that large.


The Ultrastars are in theory the mission critical drives used by enterprises.

The E7K drives are enterprise drives, the 7Ks are desktop drives, not as fast seekers etc.

Reliability can often be a case of sensible cooling.

I like WD Green drives as then tend to run a bit cooler.

Raw speed is only half the story, the OS is probably where much of any
bottleneck is.

Michael

 

[Rod Speed]

Ato_Zee wrote

But isnt relevant to HD choice.

Where it is, and how the pagefile is managed,
is worth optimising for that bit extra speed.

Makes a lot more sense to have enough ram so that its not used.